Post by The Big Daddy C-Master on May 2, 2012 15:47:42 GMT -5
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Who says Twitter is completely and utterly useless? Marine scientist have turned two robot subs to tweeting their discoveries home.
Meet the University of South Florida's Tavros (The AutonomousVehicle and Remotely-Operated Sensing) subs, @tavros01 and @tavros02, solar-powered explorers of the Gulf Of Mexico. The robot subs will swim underwater on their own, tweeting their location and water-quality sample results on Twitter, the 140-character mini-blogging social network beloved by the chattering classes. (On accounts like, say, @dvergano, which has started following, @tavros02, a tweeting-machine as of March 22.)
"We were interested in getting machines taking in data and – like humans have processed that data in the past – Tweeting it back to us intelligently," says USF system engineer David Fries, in a university statement. Right now, the sub's tweets are a little on the dry side. But the marine researchers next hope to convert the subs' tweets into plain-language statements about fishing or beach conditions to the public.
Who says Twitter is completely and utterly useless? Marine scientist have turned two robot subs to tweeting their discoveries home.
Meet the University of South Florida's Tavros (The AutonomousVehicle and Remotely-Operated Sensing) subs, @tavros01 and @tavros02, solar-powered explorers of the Gulf Of Mexico. The robot subs will swim underwater on their own, tweeting their location and water-quality sample results on Twitter, the 140-character mini-blogging social network beloved by the chattering classes. (On accounts like, say, @dvergano, which has started following, @tavros02, a tweeting-machine as of March 22.)
"We were interested in getting machines taking in data and – like humans have processed that data in the past – Tweeting it back to us intelligently," says USF system engineer David Fries, in a university statement. Right now, the sub's tweets are a little on the dry side. But the marine researchers next hope to convert the subs' tweets into plain-language statements about fishing or beach conditions to the public.
